webMethods Knowlegebase : Task data does not allow special character (1801047)

Troubleshooting

Problem

Invoking pub.task.taskclient:getTask, set includeTaskData=true, when there is a special character like emojis in task data, the following error is observed :

Could not run 'findTask'

com.wm.app.b2b.server.ISRuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 10; columnNumber: 9; Character reference "&#xD83D" is an invalid XML character.

com.wm.util.BasisException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 10; columnNumber: 9; Character reference "&#xD83D" is an invalid XML character.

at com.wm.util.BasisRuntimeException.<init>(BasisRuntimeException.java:86)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.ISRuntimeException.<init>(ISRuntimeException.java:194)

at pub.task.taskclient.getTask(taskclient.java:722)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor924.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.JavaService.baseInvoke(JavaService.java:404)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.InvokeManager.process(InvokeManager.java:756)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.util.tspace.ReservationProcessor.process(ReservationProcessor.java:39)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.StatisticsProcessor.process(StatisticsProcessor.java:54)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.ServiceCompletionImpl.process(ServiceCompletionImpl.java:243)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.ValidateProcessor.process(ValidateProcessor.java:49)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.PipelineProcessor.process(PipelineProcessor.java:171)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.ACLManager.process(ACLManager.java:299)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.DispatchProcessor.process(DispatchProcessor.java:34)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.AuditLogManager.process(AuditLogManager.java:377)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.InvokeManager.invoke(InvokeManager.java:634)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.InvokeManager.invoke(InvokeManager.java:442)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.invoke.InvokeManager.invoke(InvokeManager.java:398)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.ServiceManager.invoke(ServiceManager.java:252)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.BaseService.invoke(BaseService.java:229)

at com.wm.lang.flow.FlowInvoke.invoke(FlowInvoke.java:257)

at com.wm.lang.flow.FlowState.invokeNode(FlowState.java:535)

at com.wm.lang.flow.FlowState.step(FlowState.java:401)

at com.wm.lang.flow.FlowState.invoke(FlowState.java:372)

at com.wm.app.b2b.server.FlowSvcImpl.baseInvoke(FlowSvcImpl.java:1132)